Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Nehemiah 10:26
And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
26. Ahijah ] R.V. Ahiah.
We have here 44 names: or, if Bunni (Neh 10:15) be the accidental repetition of Bani, and if ‘Ater, Hezekiah’ stand for ‘Ater, of Hezekiah’ (Ezr 2:16; Ezr 7:21), no more than 42. This figure is considerably in excess of the number of names under the same head in Ezra 2, Nehemiah 7.
( a) 14 names at least (i.e. Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, Azgad, Bebai, Bigvai, Adin, Ater, Hariph (= Jorah Ezra 2), Hashum, Bezai, Anathoth) are found, as they occur here, in the lists of Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7.
Adonijah (Neh 10:16) is doubtless the same as Adonikam (Ezr 2:13, Neh 7:18), Magpiash (Neh 10:20), as Magbish (Ezr 2:30).
( b) The names of certain houses mentioned in the lists of Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7. e.g. Shephatiah, Arah, Zaccai do not appear here; these houses had either died out, or left the city, or refused to sign.
( c) The addition of names may be explained by the gradual accession of families since the age of Zerubbabel. But the variety of documents employed by the compiler is quite sufficient to account for considerable discrepancy in the names, since the work of compilation must have taken place long after the lists were drawn up.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
[See comments on Ne 10:1].